I never get tired of watching the antics of Brown Rooster from the back door. When it’s not raining I usually put him outside of the...

Now that it’s getting dark so early and the number of daylight hours is almost at its annual low, the ladies’ egg production has dropped...

Last weekend we took a big step in our journey toward self-sufficiency at 5R Farm. You may recall from The Rooster Dilemma post that...

It’s that time of year when many chickens go through the annual process of molting and grow a new set of feathers. It’s easy to tell when...

It’s been several months since I removed the roosters from the chicken flock, and I’ve been juggling rooster housing ever since. Things...

There’s exciting news today at 5R Farm. Grace has joined the ranks of the laying hens, and even more exciting is that she’s a member of...

I felt the worst had happened to Brown Rooster. For those of you that haven’t been introduced to Brown Rooster yet, he is one of the two...

It’s been three months since we spontaneously agreed to provide a home for six chicks that were hatched out in a friend’s grade school...

As much as I love my roosters, and as much as they love the ladies, it was time to move Reuben and Ramon into their own bachelor pad....

I’ve known for a couple of months that one of our four Speckled Sussex hens was not doing well, and she finally left us this week. I’m...

Now that we’ve gotten Millie through her broody phase by letting her hatch out a few chicks, we’ve got a couple more broody girls at the...

That’s where my little Sweet Pea is now. She left us this evening after a few weeks of us trying our best to nurse her back to health. I...

I had thought about calling this post “Crazy Chicken Lady” because I’m about to divulge the lengths I will go to for one of my favorite...

I have exciting news to report – our very own Millie hatched out some baby chicks! You may recall I had written about Millie wanting to...

I’ve learned a lot about rooster love in the last year, a bit too much perhaps, and one thing I can say is that love hurts! We currently...

We lost one of the good ones this week. Henry was the pint-sized ambassador of 5R Farm. He was one of our two banty roosters, the...

It’s been a long time coming, but I finally decided to rehome one of our roosters – Ringo, our silver gray dorking. Now that the roosters...

We’ve had several weeks of freezing temperatures in the mornings at 5R Farm this winter. When I look out the window in the morning and...

I introduced you to Rooster Cogburn (aka Reuben) and Ramon, the two highest ranking roosters in our flock, in the previous Boys of 5R...

I had to give up my first rooster two and a half years ago when our backyard chicken Ramona turned into Ramon, and ever since then I...